Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] year of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although occupational pension schemes are increasingly common , levels of payment are often linked to earnings in the most recent years of work . |
| 2 | There are some pointers to this being an accurate judgement , although the period for which wool and corn prices have been studied in detail does not go further back than 1490 , and therefore does not include what are probably the most serious years of enclosure ( 58 , p.183 ) . |
| 3 | Turning to the internal Soviet situation Gorbachev described 1989 as " the most difficult year of perestroika [ restructuring ] " since its launch in 1985 , as the country had " encountered a number of most acute problems " , but he declared that the goal of " a humane , democratic socialism , a society of freedom and social justice " was within sight . |
| 4 | The people most affected by AIDS are those in the highly productive years of life . |
| 5 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 6 | " Liberal " in the broad sense , including most of the scientists , thinkers and poets of the day , tended to be linked in people 's minds with the excesses of the French Revolution and the nearly 30 years of war that followed it . |
| 7 | Younger people are on average thirteen times as likely to be assaulted as people in the over 45 years of age category . |
| 8 | But in more robust days , you would have been more likely to come upon a coven up there , since the summit of La Rhune was one of several places in the Basque lands where witches were held to convene during the very ugly years of persecution early in the seventeenth century — then it was , according to the local inquisitors , that English and Scottish travellers arriving by sea in Bordeaux saw veritable armies of devils making their way towards south-western France . |
| 9 | These areas of activity are dealt with in detail elsewhere in this report but I am very pleased in this foreword to highlight a most successful year of achievement — a year which owed so much to the inspiration given to use all by those who saved the Nation in 1940 . |
| 10 | AFTER an outstandingly successful year of fund raising in 1990 , totalling £13,000 , Broadstairs ladies ' guild were able to make use of an empty shop in Harbour Street which the owner allowed to be used free of charge . |